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loxodrome | 1 month ago

Do people actually take papers in "management science" seriously?

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abanana|1 month ago

Yes, that's the problem, many do, and they swear by these oversimplified ideas and one-liners that litter the field of popular management books, fully believing it's all "scientific" and they'll laugh at you for questioning it. It's nuts.

graemep|1 month ago

There is a difference between popular management books and academic publications.

For example there is a long history of studies of the relationship between working hours and productivity which is one of the few things that challenges the idea that longer hours means more output.

malshe|1 month ago

They do and there is nothing wrong with that. The papers published in this journal are peer-reviewed and go through multiple rounds of review. Also, note that Andrew King could carry out the replication because the data is publicly available.